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“Flying Saucer” Photos Found In National Archives Collection for Goddard Space Flight Center

The following photographs are found within the Goddard Space Flight Center, Graphic and Publication Services Branch Collection, within the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Each holds the caption “Flying Saucer, June 4, 1964” within NARA’s holdings, and are part of Record Group 255: Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

They are archived here for reference purposes.

These are known to be Paul Villa’s UFO photographs from 1964 and are part of a larger narrative where he claimed contact with extraterrestrial beings. He reported that these beings communicated with him telepathically since childhood and provided insights into their advanced technology and peaceful mission. He claimed to have been guided to a location near Peralta, New Mexico, where he photographed a flying saucer, allegedly interacting with his environment in ways that demonstrated their technological capabilities, such as levitating his truck.

How these photographs wound up in the Goddard Space Flight Center records collection is unknown.

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The Best States for UFO Enthusiasts

In the years that followed the end of World War II, UFO sightings soared, and the U.S. government, concerned with national security, did its best to explain them away – weather balloons, other aircraft, atmospheric phenomena, birds…. But the proliferation of reports in every state has made it difficult for some people to accept the government’s explanations. ( Here is why scientists think there is life on other planets .) To compile a list of the best states for UFO enthusiasts in 2022, 24/7 Tempo reviewed the results of a report on the subject from Lawn Love , a lawn care resource site, which frequently analyzes data around various lifestyle topics. Drawing on some 13 governmental and non-governmental sources, Lawn Love collected data on 12 differently weighted criteria across four categories: number of UFO and UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) sightings; community (including number of UFO-related clubs and organizations and average month Google searches for UFO-related terms); sighting potential (number of planetariums and observatories, number of U.S. Air Force bases, communication towers per square mile, and historical average air quality index); and entertainment (number of UFO-related tours, attractions, and events). Scores for each state were averaged across all categories to determine the states (including the District of Columbia) most and least likely to report extraterrestrial activity. Data on UFO sightings since 1998 and total sightings came from the National UFO Reporting Center , a non-profit organization that records and attempts to document possible UFO related-events. NOFORC has reported more than 150,000 sightings since it was founded 48 years ago. ( These are the states where people see the most UFOs .) The evidence is making it more difficult for the U.S. government to ignore. In June 2021, the director of the Office of National Intelligence published a report titled “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.” The report did not find proof of extraterrestrial activity, but the government did not rule out that possibility either. In July 2021, the House of Representatives passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to set up a government system for reporting UFOs. That same year, the U.S. Navy officially published previously released videos showing unexplained objects. The top five states for UFO fans are all in the West. Besides California and Texas, the nation’s two most populous states, UFO experts say the desert landscapes and the lack of so-called light pollution in the Southwest offer the best viewing opportunities for these visitors. Beyond the top five, UFO sightings are dispersed across the U.S.

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Multiple US military whistleblowers reveal how a disc-shaped UFO intercepted nuclear missile and disabled it with ‘laser-beams’ in mid-air over California

The US military is in possession of a video of a UFO apparently disabling a nuclear warhead during a routine test, according to multiple former officials.

They claim the video in question captured a saucer-shaped craft circling the unarmed, dummy warhead shortly after it detached from the Atlas missile booster, then shooting four beams of light at the warhead, disabling it.

Retired US Air Force officers Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze Mansmann claim to have viewed the recording of the 1964 encounter before the tape went missing.  

The former officials were part of a team responsible for capturing video of missile test launches in California with telescopic photography and videography equipment. 

Two days later, after they screened the video, they claim that two plain-clothed CIA agents confiscated the footage and swore them to secrecy.

The incredible account is part of a pattern that some UFO experts have identified, where UFOs seem to interfere with nuclear weapons. 

The alleged incident occurred nearly six decades ago, on September 15, 1964, but it has more recently come into public knowledge due to author Robert Hastings investigating it.

Luis Elizondo acknowledged the existence of the video and claimed he has seen it, according to a February 10 post by Hastings on The UFO Chronicles website. 

Elizondo says he was the former director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) program to study UFOs, and he has been involved in several high-profile leaks of military footage purporting to show UFOs.

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UFO sightings in Colorado cities soar above national average

Colorado is an extraterrestrial enthusiast’s dream with its constellation of UFO sightings.

By the numbers: The Denver metro area had 43.2 sightings per 100,000 residents between 2000 and 2023, compared to the national average of 34.3, according to National UFO Reporting Center data.

Yes, but: That pales in comparison to sightings reported elsewhere in the state, including southern Colorado, where sparsely populated counties like Mineral and Huerfano show 377.8 and 362.5 per 100,000 people, respectively.

Between the lines: UFO sightings tend to happen in the parts of the U.S. where the night sky is the darkest.

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Big Sur UFO Film: Government Whistleblower Reveals He Watched It

According to two former US Air Force officers—Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze Mansmann—a USAF photographic team based at Vandenberg AFB, California, tasked with filming missile test launches, inadvertently captured the image of a domed, disc-shaped UFO as it circled and then disabled—with four flashes of an intense beam of light—a dummy nuclear warhead flying downrange over the Pacific Ocean. Jacobs had been in charge of the telescopic photography site located at Big Sur, California, and Mansmann was Vandenberg’s chief photographic imagery analyst.

The date of the dramatic incident was September 15, 1964. Two days later, a highly-restricted screening of the spectacular footage took place at the base—attended by Jacobs, Mansmann, and two CIA officers who immediately classified the event Top Secret. The film was then confiscated by the pair and flown “back East” for analysis and storage, according to Major Mansmann. The destination was undoubtedly the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) which, it is now known, had already engaged in UFO photo analysis for years.

By the early 1980s, Jacobs felt that enough time had passed following the stunning UFO encounter to allow him to discuss it publicly. He has explained that, at the time of the 1964 film screening at Vandenberg, Major Mansmann had only ordered him “not to talk about” the unexpected filming of the UFO with anyone, pointedly saying that it had “never happened”. No mention was made of its Top Secret classification, for reasons that remain unclear to the former Lieutenant. Furthermore, because the two officers lost touch with each other after leaving the Air Force, 19 years passed before Mansmann was able confirm to Jacobs that the two mysterious men in civilian clothes at the screening were in fact CIA personnel.

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Harvard Scientist Presents New Evidence That Samples Are Alien Spacecraft

Harvard professor and notorious UFO hunter Avi Loeb claims he has new evidence that meteor fragments recovered from the ocean floor are alien technology, Boston Public Radio reports, pushing back against detractors who argue their origins are more mundane.

“It raises the possibility that it may have been a Voyager-like meteor, artificially made by another civilization,” Loeb told the station on Monday, referencing an actual pair of probes sent screaming out of the solar system by NASA back in the 1970s.

Though perhaps best known for his provocative theories on the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua that passed through our solar system back in 2017, Loeb’s latest findings concern another interstellar oddity which, unlike Oumuamua, found its way to Earth — albeit not in one piece.

Dubbed IM1, the meteor plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea nearly a decade ago, but was overlooked until Loeb spearheaded efforts that confirmed in 2022 that it was the first interstellar object known to fall to Earth.

In hot pursuit, the astrophysicist launched an expedition to comb the ocean floor for the object last year and found, he claims, its remnants in the form of spherical metal fragments, or “spherules,” that he thinks could suggest IM1 might be some form of alien technology.

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National Archives tees up new rules for UFO records

Congress wants to know what agencies know about UFOs, and, under a new law, agencies have to tell them.

New records management provisions included in the recently enacted 2024 defense policy bill require federal agencies to organize and tag records related to what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomena” or UAP. 

Agencies have until the end of the current fiscal year to “review, identify, and organize each UAP record in its custody for disclosure to the public and transmission to the National Archives,” according to a memo sent Tuesday afternoon from Laurence Brewer, chief records officer for the U.S. Government, and Chris Naylor, NARA’s executive for research services, to federal agency records managers.

A new, central collection of UAP records will be housed at the National Archives and Records Administration.

The law passed without measures sought by backers, notably Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that would have set up a presidential commission with the authority to declassify records pertaining to UAP.

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If there are advanced spacecraft why would they crash?

Members of Congress have heard testimony about alleged UFO crashes and retrievals. The stories sound much like the plot of a sci-fi movie but are now being taken seriously in Washington.

The question is, if there are advanced spacecraft from beyond, why would they crash?

April 18, 1962, an unknown object entered Earth’s atmosphere over Cuba, traveled up the East Coast, and then made an abrupt 45-degree left turn at New York. It blazed across the heart of the U.S., and was pursued by military jets that could not keep up, and then landed in a small town in Utah where it knocked out electricity, locals said, before taking off again. Somewhere over east-central Nevada, it exploded in a massive fireball seen all over the west.

“It’s a fantastic case involving, not only a few hundred witnesses, thousands of witnesses saw this thing as it traveled across the United States.” UFO Investigator and author Preston Dennett said.

According to an Air Force intelligence report, one military pilot who chased the object thought it was structured, not just a fireball, and that it was gasping and sputtering as it flew. The Air Force’s infamous Project Blue Book explained it away as a meteor, despite its highly unusual maneuvers.

In the early 2000s, Las Vegas was the annual host to a UFO crash conference, where the best-known investigators shared information about dozens of similar incidents. Ryan Wood was the conference organizer and wrote a book listing more than 70 possible UFO crashes.

“The best cases are the ones where we have multiple witnesses, some physical evidence, and multiple investigations by a variety of people over a long period of time,” Wood said.

Wood admits some of the tales might be disinformation or made up. Former Army Intelligence Col. John Alexander, himself a UFO investigator, expressed glaring doubt.

“It seems inconceivable to me that this hyper-advanced technology came a trillion miles to crash in our backyard once, let alone that this stuff keeps falling down,” Alexander said.

If these are advanced craft from another galaxy or dimension or century, why would they crash here?

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What are they trying to tell us? Internal Pentagon report warns America is unequipped to defend itself from an ALIEN invasion

US officials do not have the capabilities to defend America against a hypothetical alien invasion, internal Pentagon watchdogs have determined.

A newly declassified document found the Department of Defense (DoD) lacks comprehensive or coordinated effort to track and analyze UFOs – which have been rebranded Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) in recent years.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) made the eerie conclusion that this blindspot in the DoD’s defensive capabilities ‘poses a threat to military forces and national security.’

To address the issues identified in this report, the OIG has made 11 recommendations, including the enforcement of protection policies and the development of new tools in the event of an extraterrestrial attack.

‘DoD efforts to identify and understand UAP has been irregular because of competing priorities, lack of substantive progress, and inconclusive findings,’ reads ‘Evaluation of the DoD’s Actions Regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena‘, previously issued August 2023.

‘However, military pilots have continued to report UAP incidents despite the sporadic efforts of the DoD to identify, report, and analyze the events’

The 2023 report was a collection of evaluations on whether the Pentagon, military branches, defense agencies and counterintelligence organizations conducted actions ‘to detect, report, collect, analyze, and identify UAP.’

‘The DoD has not issued a comprehensive UAP response plan that identifies roles, responsibilities, requirements, and coordination procedures for detecting, reporting, collecting, analyzing, and identifying UAP incidents,’ OIG concluded.

The agency conducted the work for the evaluation from May 2021 through June 2023 and interviewed Presidential and DoD policies, directives and guidance.

Those individuals are tasked with establishing requirements for intelligence gathering, counterintelligence, force protection, and civil liberty protections for 

‘As a result, the DoD response to UAP incidents is uncoordinated and concentrated within each Military Department.’

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UFO reports from pilots include ‘intense’ and ‘unusual’ lights over Canada in 2023

Early on Feb. 12, 2023, at least three different flights over Quebec reported(opens in a new tab) “seeing very strange lights in the sky, high above the flight paths” that were “moving in a rapid and irregular way.”

“It looks like it’s more than one and sort of circling,” a crew member aboard a cargo flight from Chicago to Luxembourg told air traffic controllers in Canada, according to audio obtained by CTVNews.ca(opens in a new tab). “It’s a bit weird.”

CTVNews.ca has identified at least 17 reports like these from 2023 in an online aviation incident database(opens in a new tab) maintained by Transport Canada, the federal transportation department. Those reports come from across the country and involve pilots and crew with WestJet(opens in a new tab), Air France(opens in a new tab), British Airways(opens in a new tab) and more(opens in a new tab). You can read all of the reports in an exclusive interactive map(opens in a new tab).

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